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...Queen Elizabeth, gowned in salmon pink crêpe de chine, said smilingly: "You know, my son is tall. Well, the princess reaches his eyes...
...year and more King Albert and Queen Elizabeth have been seriously shopping for a princess. Where to look? Crown Prince Leopold,* for whom the princess was intended, is 24. Therefore the Spanish princesses would be a trifle young: Beatriz, 17, and Maria Christina, 14. Princess Giovanna of Italy is 18, but Rome and Brussels are not so near as they used to be before the appearance of Mussolini with his antipathy for Belgium. Princess Ileana of Rumania, sole unmarried daughter of a Balkan monarch, is of course only...
When His Majesty returned with some reddish-brown "proofs," Queen Elizabeth continued: "You see they're only proofs, not entirely developed, but you may judge if there is any exaggeration in the name of 'the world's most beautiful princess' which has been given our future daughter...
...Should he ascend the throne he will reign as Leopold III, and will be Belgium's fourth king. Leopold I (1790-1865) was of course Queen Victoria's "wise uncle Leopold." Leopold II (1835-1909) was an uncle of the present king, Albert I, and although notoriously dissolute, and the ruthless exploiter of the Congo, spent much of his ill-gotten wealth on public buildings and improvements in Belgium...
Since Boris III, King of the Bulgarians, is a bachelor his eldest sister, Princess Eudoxia, 28, has had thrust upon her by default the duties if not the title of a queen. Eudoxia, by temperament melancholy and reserved, is little known to foreigners. Therefore when the Berlin National Zeitung began to publish her "memoirs," last week, a mild sensation rippled...